5. Your responsibilities

(a) You must work with local organisations, peak bodies, groups, and communities, including other TEOs that are involved in Adult and Community Education, Search and Rescue (ACE) and Emergency Management (ACE) provision, to identify and meet community learning needs.

(b) You must design and provide ACE programmes of study or training that:

(i) if you are an ITP or wānanga, align with the priorities specified in paragraph 4(a), or

(ii) if you are a PTE, REAP provider, or a community organisation, align with the priorities specified in paragraph 4(b).

(c) You must provide us with access to your premises, employees and information for the purposes of:

(i) inspecting the records that you keep, or

(ii) auditing your compliance with Conditions and requirements in the Education Act.

6. Fees

(i) ensure that the level of fees you set for ACE programmes of study or training does not prevent individuals from enrolling in those programmes, and

(ii) charge the same fee to all learners participating in an ACE programme of study or training.

(b) In relation to equipment, infrastructure, and hardware:

(i) you must pay for the necessary equipment, infrastructure, and hardware required to deliver a particular programme, and

(ii) when providing essential equipment (including computers, diving hardware, and chainsaws), you must not require a student to meet the costs through the "course-related costs" component of the Student Loan Scheme as a condition of the student's enrolment.

For the purposes of this Condition, "equipment, infrastructure, and hardware":

(i) means items that can be used by successive intakes of students, and

(ii) does not include personal items that are provided for individual students' use and that you do not retain for the next intake of students.

8. Reports

(i) supply to us information about each learner enrolled in ACE provision by completing the fields in the SDR and using the funding source code 23, and

(ii) submit the information on or before the date we specify.

(b) If you are a PTE, REAP provider or community organisation, you must submit a report to us for each academic year by 31 January of the following year. Each report must be submitted in accordance with the ACE in Communities Final Report template that we will provide to you.

10. Repayment of ACE (Communities) Fund funding

If you receive ACE (Communities) Fund funding that is greater than it should have been, or that you were not entitled to receive, you must treat the amount of the over-funding as a debt due to the Crown that:

(a) is repayable on demand, and

(b) may be set-off against all or any funding, or any sum of money payable by us to you.

An ITP, wānanga, PTE, REAP provider, or community organisation will have received funding that was greater than it should have been if it delivered less ACE provision than it was funded for. In that situation, we will recover the difference between the amount of provision delivered and the ACE (Communities) Fund funding provided.

11. Suspension or revocation of ACE (Communities) Fund funding

If we suspend or revoke some or all of your ACE (Communities) Fund funding undersection 159YG of the Education Act before some or all of that funding has been used or contractually committed towards the purposes for which the funding was provided, you must treat the unexpended or uncommitted portion of the funding as debt due to the Crown that is:

(a) repayable on demand by us, and

(b) may be set-off against all or any funding, or any sum payable by us to you.